The Diamondback Grill is open seven days a week. Bar opens: 5:00 pm Dinner service: 5:30 pm For reservations: (336) 722-0006 751 N. Avalon Road Winston-Salem, NC The Diamondback is celebrating its 22nd year of business. We thank you for your support
(and your thirst).
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Happy New Year to you. We wish you joy, happiness and tight skin around your neck area. Scratch that -- we wish you incredible wealth and physical prowess. In any case, we hope your New Year's resolutions will include not making any more resolutions, and instead, making plans to come sit and laugh at our bar with a bunch of friends.
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 Dear Diamondback Friends,
So much to be excited about. And thank you.
We want to start the new year off with some gratitude for the old year. Thank you, everyone, for making the Diamondback such a wonderful place. Thank you to our incredibly hardworking staff and their families. Thank you to John Batchelor for a seriously awesome review in the Winston-Salem Journal's Relish Magazine on December 22 (more on that below) - we love you, man. Thank you to Macallan for making your 12-year-old scotch so incredibly smooth and ... oops, see we're getting off track. But we're thankful. Thank you.
Now On To All Sorts of Exciting Upcoming Events We're calling this our "Winter" Newsletter because there's so much coming up in January and February that we figured we'd better just let you know what's happening well in advance. Get out your iPhone 4s and tell Siri to start putting these dates in pronto. In January, we'll be hunkering down to watch a bunch of great football and basketball and offering some delicious food. We're having a fun Oyster Roast on Thursday, Jan. 19, and a "Tailgate" BBQ on Jan. 31 when Carolina plays at Wake. We'll also have a fire in the fireplace, fish in the fish tank and paper tablecloths so your children will be entertained and you can stay focused on what's important: the games.*
In February, we'll having one of our famous Crabondanza Seafood Spectaculars with fresh crab, oysters and the works when Duke plays at Carolina (on Feb. 8). We're working on an incredible Valentine's meal for Tuesday, Feb. 14, and we are ready for some romance around here, friends. Please note we will be closed on February 5 for Super Bowl Sunday because it would be un-American not to let our sports-loving staff stay home and watch the big game with some microwaved nachos.
Our Inclement Weather Policy Is Always in Effect (Even Though It's Been 60 Degrees Outside and You Should Probably Be Wearing Sunscreen)
When we do have a light dusting of snow, an ice storm, a real blizzard, snow mixed with rain or whatever combination of nasty weather is normal for this year, the Diamondback will be open to serve you with excellence. Bring those frozen little children on in and we'll make a party of it. That's what it's all about, you know.
Thanks again and Happy New Year, everyone.
-- Kimberly and Murphy
*We're just joking here, of course. Nothing is more important than Little Timmy and Suzy.
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| Special Events in January and February |
 OYSTER ROAST
Thursday, January 19, at 5:30 pmWFU @ Duke at 7 pm; UNC @ VA Tech at 9 pm
Join us for a spectacular winter oyster roast with delicious seafood and a great night of basketball. We'll be serving fresh oysters raw, steamed, fried and baked, and it's going to be mighty fun.
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 PREGAME TAILGATE BBQ PARTY Tuesday, January 31
Dinner service begins 5:30 pm
UNC @ WFU at 9 pm
We'll be serving house-roasted Eastern NC BBQ, pulled pork and baby back ribs, plus peel 'n eat shrimp as well as our famous DBG wings with potato salad and coleslaw for just $15.95. Drink specials include $2 beer, as well as $4 Bourbons, Bloody Marys and Screwdrivers. |
 CAROLINA CRABONDANZA Wednesday, February 8
Dinner service starts 5:30 pm Duke @ UNC starts 9:00 pm |
 VALENTINE'S AT THE DIAMONDBACK
Tuesday, February 14
Dinner service begins 5:30 pm
Listen, we know how to do Valentine's right. Our chefs are working on a Valentine's menu with enough aphrodisiacs to make Viagra redundant. We'll have oysters, champagne specials, truffles, dark chocolate desserts and so much more. Now, let's be honest: Valentine's does get very busy here at the DB, so don't wait until the last minute to call and make your reservation -- you will be in the doghouse and you will be unhappy. Also, if you say a month early, "Listen honey, I really want to take you out somewhere wonderful for Valentine's and I've already made a reservation at the Diamondback," you'll be able to milk this Valentine's for an entire month.
Also, our staff is interested in having some excitement during our Valentine's dinner service. So if you are planning to get engaged and have a 10-carat diamond ring that you'd like stuffed into one of our famous crab hushpuppies as a surprise, please just let us know.*
*Our lawyers would want us to add here that if your supermodel bride-to-be bites down on a big diamond in a hushpuppy and cracks her tooth in half and ends up looking like scary Toothless Joe, we are not technically liable.
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 FAT TUESDAY MARDI GRAS PARTY
Tuesday, February 21
Dinner service begins 5:30 pm
Join us for our annual rockin' Mardi Gras party and celebrate a great night at the DB.
Special Cajun menu includes:
Red Beans and Rice
Jambalaya
Shrimp Etouffee
Steamed Shrimp and Oysters
King Cake -- Find the plastic baby hidden in the cake and you'll have good luck the entire year!
Drink specials including: Mardi Gras Mojitos, Cajun Bloody Marys, Blackened Voodoo Beer, Hurricanes
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 TRIVIA NIGHTS FOR PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T HATE THE S.A.T.
Tuesdays at 9:00 pm with John Cain
You think you're so darn smart ... oh, and it turns out you are. So we invite you to join us for a night with other brainy people at our Tuesday trivia night. If you know what the square root of things are and what happened in 42 B.C. in a small town in some place most people have never heard of, boy do we have a game for you. So head on over on Tuesdays at 9:00 pm, take advantage of our drink and appetizer specials, and have a little fun. All craft cocktails are just $7.50, and you don't have to have a degree from Harvard to know they taste darn fine. See you on Tuesday.
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 WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL'S RELISH MAGAZINE CALLS DIAMONDBACK GRILL A "PERENNIAL FAVORITE"
Yahoo! You know we normally shy away from fame and stardom. But not today. And we thank you, John Batchelor, for the wonderful review that will no doubt bring some new, amusing, famous and wonderful food lovers through the doors of the DB. And we'll be ready -- oh yes we will. We hope you'll take just a moment to read the article (the link is below), especially where John says, "With good food and good service, Diamondback joins a short list of personal favorites." We're mighty proud of this, and we thank John for loving the DB.
Read the article ...
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What's Going On in January & February
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 JANUARY AND FEBRUARY
DRINK SPECIALS EVERY NIGHT
EVERY TUESDAY -- EXCEPT VALENTINE'S DAY, FEBRUARY 14
~$2 Tuesday Wine Tastings, $2 each at the bar
~$2 Tuesdays for Kids -- feed the kiddies for just $2. That's real food for $2 -- no extreme couponing needed!
~Live Maine lobsters $22
~Trivia Night with John Cain -- starts at 9:00 pm
EVERY THURSDAY
~Oyster Night! 75-cent oysters, steamed or raw, local from Chincoteague, VA
EVERY SATURDAY
~$6.50 cordials
 EVERY NIGHT WHEN IT'S COLD AND MISERABLE OUTSIDE
We have a toasty warm fire inside. Yes, we like a nice fire over in the fireplace, and you're welcome to come on in and plunk down on the sofa and have your drinks right there.
SPORTS AND OTHER EVENTS
January 19 (Thursday) - OYSTER ROAST and BASKETBALL - Oyster Roast begins at 5:30 pm; WFU @ Duke -- Game time 7:00 pm, UNC @ VA Tech - Game time 9:00 pm January 31 (Tuesday) - PREGAME TAILGATE BBQ and BASKETBALL - UNC @ WFU - Game time 9:00 pm February 5 (Sunday) - SUPER BOWL SUNDAY. The Diamondback will be closed so that our staff members can put on their jerseys and sit in their favorite chairs.February 8 (Wednesday) - CRABONDANZA and BASKETBALL - DUKE @ UNC -- Game time 9:00 pm February 14 (Tuesday) - VALENTINE'S DINNER! - Please make reservations in advance - (336) 722-0006. Dinner specials, champagne specials, surprises and more.
February 21 (Tuesday) - FAT TUESDAY MARDI GRAS PARTY - Join us for a night where we will not be counting calories. Mardi Gras is one of our favorite nights of the year -- don't miss it. Free beads, free coins. Lots of drink specials.
February 29 (Wednesday) - LEAP YEAR PARTY - So fun, we only do it every 4 years. Drink specials, dinner specials. To see the JANUARY and FEBRUARY calendars, click here. |
 ARTIST JACK HERNON IS AT THE DIAMONDBACK
We are wild about Jack Hernon's artwork, and we hope you will be too.
Here's Jack's bio for you:
For the past thirty years, Jack Hernon has energized dual careers as a professional color specialist and as a fine artist. He has an MFA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, nine years as an art educator, and thirty-five years of exhibiting works in galleries with public collections in North Carolina, Oklahoma and New York. He is also represented in private collections throughout the US, France, South America and the US Virgin Islands. He works mostly in acrylic and mixed media. To see Jack's website, click here.
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 LET'S PARTY
Are you planning a party, office party or wedding event this year? We'd love to help. Our catering staff caters for thousands of people at the High Point Furniture market and for beautiful parties all over Winston-Salem and the Triad. We can work within your budget to help you plan and execute the perfect event. For more information, see our catering page on our website or call Murphy at the Diamondback at (336) 722-0006.
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 BORN IN JANUARY OR FEBRUARY? COME ON IN. DINNER IS ON US. (REALLY!) We love birthdays, so we invite all you folks who were born in January and February to come celebrate your birthday with us -- with a free dinner. Come on your birthday (the actual day!) and we'll give you a birthday dinner worth $25. Now, we're hoping you'll come with 75 other people, but we'll take you and a nice friend too. Happy birthday!
CURBSIDE TAKEOUT -- FOR BUSY, CLEVER MOMS
Tired? Sick of cooking? Wonderful. We love to cook, and we'd love to make your family a delicious dinner and bring it out to your car for you. Just dial (336) 722-0006 and give us about 20 minutes, and we'll have it all packed up and ready to go. You feed that family and then you put yourself in a warm bath with bubbles and eat some bonbons. Dr. Oz and Oprah would approve!*
 WORK DOWNTOWN -- COME CHECK OUT OUR DOWNTOWN LOCATION!
The Downtown Diamondback has delicious homemade food for folks who are working hard and could use some delicious Diamondback cooking during the day. Sandwiches, soups, salads and a nice big couch are all available. We're located in the lovely Park Building. Come see us.
*Our lawyers would want us to add here that we have made up that Dr. Oz and Oprah would approve and, in fact, they might want you to go to the gym or do some weight training instead of having the bubble bath. We really don't know what they'd want, do we. We do love Dr. Oz and Oprah, and we want to invite them to come eat the delicious crab hushpuppies that John Batchelor from Relish loved so much. Thank you, John Batchelor.
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 Everyone -- thank you so much for reading to the bottom of this email. We hope you're hungry and ready to come for a nice dinner at the Diamondback Grill. In this email, we've featured lots of upcoming events, but please be reminded -- the Diamondback is open 7 nights a week for a nice glass of wine, a good dinner and a chance to warm your backside by the fire.
Thanks so much, and hope to see you in January and February.
Kimberly and Murphy
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